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UNITED STATES PATENT O FICE.

CHARLES 0. APPLEBY, on NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO MILES J. HOTOHKISS, or SAME PLACE.

POWDER-DIVIDER.

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To all whom it may concerns Be it known that 1, CHARLES 0. APPLEBY, of the city and county of New Haven, in the State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Powder-Dividers, fully set forth and described in the following specification, taken in connection with the drawings, which form apart thereof, and in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective View. of the lev:

. eler; Fig. 2, a Vertical section on lines 2 2 of so that each portion shall contain a similar quantity of powdera most important element in the putting up of medicines.

In the'drawings, A represents a substantially rectangular frame, of steel or other suitable material, for receiving the powder,- having an extension a, on which are mounted vertical rods d of similar material. A number of blocks B, of steel or other suitable material, are adapted to fit within the frame A and when all are assembled therein to completely fill the interior space thereof, the various blocks being of unequal width, as shown in Fig. 1, so that by the arrangement of one, two, or three of these blocks the interior space of the frame may be divided into various proportions, as may be desired by the operator. L-shaped arms I), having vertical portions b,

are rigidly secured to the blocks B and have longitudinal perforations in their vertical portions, so that they may fit over the rods 0t and be raised and lowered thereon by means of lugs b on said arms b, as shown in Fig. 1 Clamps b are also attached by set-screws b or other means to the blocks '13, so that two or more of said blocks may be fastened together, so as to provide any desired arrangeare adapted to slide tubes E.

Application filed Jul 1e 3, 1897. Serial No. 639,232. Camden ment of the blocks to divide the space in the frames l i 0 represents a hollow casing consisting of thesides c and c and top 0 the side 0 being removed in Figs. 3 and 4. At one end of the casing is secured a handle 0 Within the casing C is secured the dividing mechanism, consisting of the plates cl and cl, affixed to the ends of said casing, secured to which plates are a series of horizontal rods E, arranged one above the other, and on which A horizontal guide-rod F is secured at its ends to the lower .edge of said casing. Integral with or rigidly secured to the forward ends of the tubes E are depending vertical carriers G, of different lengths, so that their lower ends terminate in the same horizontal plane. These'lower ends are looped or perforated to surround the guide rod F and are adapted to carry parallel blades 0, extending transversely to the guide-rod. A blade N is rigidly secured to the guide-rod F to be in the rear of and parallel to the movable blades 0 and project downward slightly farther than the blades 0.

An operating-lever L is pivoted at Z on the exterior face of the side 0 of the casing (see Fig. 6) and carries at its lower end a gear Z, which is adapted to mesh with a pinion K on the arbor k, which extends through the side 0 of the casing and is journaled in a bearing H, connected to the inner side of the casing above the stationary blade N. A- thumbplate Z is provided at the upper end of the operating-lever L, so that the operator by pressing the operating-lever in one direction or another turns the pinion K and arbor kin a reverse direction.

Within the casing and rigidly mounted on the arbor k to rotate therewith is a vertical lever I, having aseries of rodsi pivoted thereto, one above the other, and the other ends of which are severally pivotally secured to the upper ends of the depending carriers G. These rods 41 are of such varied lengths that'when the lever I is in its rearward position, Fig. 4, the carriers will be drawn into juxtaposition with each-other and when the lever is swung rearward the carriers will each be forced proportionately for-ward, so that the 10o relative distance between them will be increased, while each will remain equidistant from the others.

A frame M, of wire or other suitable material, is secured at its ends to the bottom edge of the side 0 of the casingin well-known manner, and has at its outer end a vertical extension m,adapted to form,with the stationary blade N, a support when said device is in use.

In operation the powder to be divided is put into the frame A or so much of the frame as is desired to be used, the remainder being occupied by a block or blocks. The powder is then leveled by the successive raising and lowering of the rest of the blocks, which are fastened together, as pointed out above. The frame A is then raised from the pill Elk-310d! table on which it may rest and the powderis forced out of the frame by theblock or blocks g with ahorizontal rod or rods; of carriers adapted to; slide on said rod or rods, carrying de- B. The powder is then left on the pill-tile in rectangular form, the depth through being equal. The blades of the divider or cutting device are then set with the desired spacebetween them for cutting the powder into the requisite number of units. As the operatinglever L is forced rearward by the thumb of the operator on the thumb-plate it causes the gear Z to revolve the pinion K and thus re.-

tate the lever I in the opposite direction, 1

gwith: a seriesiot parallel horizontal rods of gtubes adapted to slide on said rods, having depending carriers with blades extending at right angles to said rods; and a lever connected to. said carriers to vary the distance Lbetween them, while maintaining an equal 3 distance between the several carriers and depending blades, as said lever is swung on its which, by means of the rods *6, secured toithe carriers G, forces the carriers and blades secured thereto apart to separate the diflierent layers or units of powder. The; divider is then raised from the powder, the; bladesdrawn back to. their original positions by thereverse movement of the operating-lever, and are then placed on the powder in a direction at right angles to their former position and the operation repeated to dividethe powder 3 into squares. It will thus be seen that thecake of powder may be divided intoithedesirednumber of units by thezcross-cutting of the cake, and at the same time each unit will be of exactly the same proportion in all directions.

Having now described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure: by Letters: Patent, is

1. Inapowder-moldingdevice,theco1nbination with a substantially rectangular frame;

a number of removable. blocks of various widths adapted to together fill the interior space; of said frame; and means for raisingand lowering each block separately to level the substance within the frame,substantially as described.

2. In a powder-mold'in g device, th ecoinbination with a substantially rectangular frame;

of a number of removable blocks of various 5 widths adapted to together fill the interior space of said frame; and means: for raising of a number of removable blocks of various widths adapted to together fill the interior space of said frame; vertical rods on which said blocks are adapted to slide; clamps for fastening the various blocks together; and means for raising and lowering said blocks to level the substance within the frame, substantially as described.

4. In a powder-divider, the combination with a frame; of carriers adapted to slide longitudinally on said frame, carrying depending blades extending at right angles to the direction of movement of the carriers; and "mechanism for simultaneously varying the distance between said carriers while maintain-ing an equal distance between the several carriers and depending blades, substantially as described.

5. In a powder-divider, the combinatlon Qpending blades extending at right angles to said rodor rods; and a lever connected to ,said carriers to vary the distance between them while maintaining an equal distance be- ;tween the several carriers and depending blades, as said lever is swung on its pivot,

substantially as described.

6. Ina powder-divider, the combination pivot, substantially as described.

7. In a powder-divider, the combination Ewith. a. series of parallel horizontal rods; of ;tubes. adapted to. slide on said rods having 1 depending carriers with blades extending at jright. angles to said rods; a stationary blade parallel to the other blades; and a lever connectedto said carriers-tovary the distancebetween them, while maintaining an equal distaneebetweenthe several carriers and blades,

said lever is swung on its: pivot, substantially as described. 7

8. In a powder-divider, the combination ;with a horizontal rod; of a tube adapted to 5 slide thereon having a depending carrier car- Ery-ing a blade; a stationary blade parallel to fsaid blade mounted on said carrier; and-a leverconneeted by a rod to said carrier to slide the tube on said rod, to vary the distancebetween said blades, as said lever is swung on its pivot, substantially as described.

9. In a powder-divider, the combination Fwi-th a series of parallel horizontal rods; of atubes adapted to slide on said rods having 1' depending carriers carrying blades extending IIO atrightangles1to said rods; a pinion rigidly mounted on a: rotary arbor; a vertical lever jmounted on said arbor to rotate therewith, connected to said carriers tovary the distance between them, while maintaining an equal hand, at New Haven, in the county of Newdistance between the several carriers and de- Haven, State of Connecticut, this 29th day of pending blades as said lever is swung on its May, 1897.

pivot; and an operating-lever adapted to 130- CHARLES O. APPLEBY. 5 tate said pinion as\ it is swung on its pivot, Witnesses:

substantially as described. LEO R. HAMMOND,

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my SAMUEL H. FISHER. 

